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PROCLAMATION 3462-APR. 4, 1962
STAT.]
1461
D O N E at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of March in the year of our T^rd nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President: DEAN R U S K,
Secretary
of
State.
Proclamation 3462 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION DAY By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
WHEREAS an effective public transportation system is vital to our economy and to our national defense; and WHEREAS April 5, 1962, is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the agency which is charged with the responsibility for regulating surface transportation in the United States; and WHEREAS the activities of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the regulation of our surface transportation industry significantly affect every citizen of the United States; and WHEREAS the Interstate Commerce Commission deserves special recognition for its contribution to the strength and well-being of our Nation; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved April 4, 1962, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating April 5, 1962, as Interstate Commerce Commission Day to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Interstate Commerce Commission: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate April 5, 1962, as Interstate Commerce Commission Day; and I urge our people, in collaboration with the transportation industry and the Interstate Commerce Commission, to participate in the observance of this occasion by appropriate ceremonies. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this Fourth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President: DEAN R U S K,
Secretary of State.
Apru 4. 1962
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